Alex Tuckness: 3 books

Book cover of Locke and the Legislative Point of View

Locke and the Legislative Point of View

Toleration, Contested Principles, and the Law

by Alex Tuckness
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009

Determining which moral principles should guide political action is a vexing question in political theory. This is especially true when faced with the "toleration paradox": believing that something is morally wrong but also believing that it is wrong to suppress it. In this book, Alex Tuckness...
Book cover of The Decline of Mercy in Public Life
by Alex Tuckness, John M. Parrish
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014

The virtue of mercy is widely admired, but is now marginalized in contemporary public life. Yet for centuries it held a secure place in western public discourse without implying a necessary contradiction with justice. Alex Tuckness and John M. Parrish ask how and why this changed. Examining Christian...
Book cover of This Is Political Philosophy
by Alex Tuckness, Clark Wolf
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016

This is Political Philosophy is an accessible and well-balanced introduction to the main issues in political philosophy written by an author team from the fields of both philosophy and politics. This text connects issues at the core of political philosophy with current, live debates in policy, politics,...
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